FROM THE NEWS-LEDGER – The West Sacramento Community Orchestra invites you to a pair of free Christmas-themed concerts, with music ranging from Wagner to “Christmas on Broadway” and “O Holy Night.” The first is at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 16, at the civic center galleria, 1110 West Capitol Avenue. The second free concert is [...]

FROM THE NEWS-LEDGER – Youths in grades 6-12 are invited to an afternoon of gingerbread house design beginning at 4 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 14, at the local library, 1212 Merkley Ave. Free. Copyright News-Ledger 2012

FROM THE NEWS-LEDGER — DEC 12, 2012 – Woodland police are looking for leads after two suspects forced him to drive them into West Sacramento. They got the call at about 2:20 a.m. on Nov. 27. The victim, a Sacramento man, said he left work in Woodland at about 2 a.m. and was driving back [...]

NEWS-LEDGER — DEC 12, 2012 – West Sacramento police are looking into what may have been a threat to the safety of Mayor Christopher Cabaldon. A post on another person’s Facebook social media site accused Cabaldon of selling the region’s groundwater, referred to him with gay slurs (Cabaldon is openly homosexual) and promised that the [...]

FROM THE NEWS-LEDGER — DEC 5, 2012 – By Steve Marschke News-Ledger Editor Last year’s “Hope Stocking Event” raised about $17,000 for local causes. “This year, we expect the total to be even higher,” reports chairperson Maria Simas, vice president of the West Sacramento Foundation. The Foundation hosted the event, which collected donations and [...]

FROM THE NEWS-LEDGER — NOV 28, 2012 – Opinions in West Sac differ about when to preserve them and when to replace them – By Steve Marschke News-Ledger Editor An apartment project near Raley Field has paid the City of West Sacramento about $200,000 for replacement trees after it quite legally removed five “heritage oaks” [...]